This study examined the stress coping strategies of athletes with high psychological vulnerability. The participants were 487 university (mean age = 19.8 years, SD 0.88, 153 women). Data collected using Vulnerability Scale for University Athletes and General Coping Questionnaire analyzed by conducting a multivariate analysis variance. results showed significant relationships between vulnerabili...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of the study described here were to 1) examine the coping style of patients with functional dyspepsia (FD) and 2) adopt a new interview questionnaire to examine the extent of discriminativeness in the use of coping strategies across different stressful situations. METHODS A matched case-control design was adopted to compare differences among a target group of 30 pati...

objective: the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between defense mechanisms and adaptation strategies on psychological well-being of patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in shiraz.   method: the design  was  a correlative study. samples of 80 patients aged 18 to 40 years, at least primary school level and also in the final stages of life were selected. this study...

background: infertility as a crisis can both lead to negative reactions and stress in infertile couples and bring about positive reactions and growth, to which henceforth posttraumatic growth is referred. this study was conducted to model the relation between martial adjustment and posttraumatic growth through the mediation of religious coping strategies in infertile couples. methods: this corr...

This study aimed to answer the question whether it is possible to predict the quality of life in individuals with gastrointestinal cancer based on the number of life events, perceived stress levels and coping strategies. The study included 60 individuals (44 male and 16 female) aged 48 to 87 years, with malignant gastrointestinal tract diseases (56 with colon or rectal cancer, 2 with stomach ca...

this study has done to show the relation between metacognitive strategies with aggression and coping styles in shiraz high school students. methods: in this study, 360 individuals of shiraz high school students between the ages 17-19 (240 females, 120 males) in 88-89 school year, were chosen by multi stage cluster sampling. data collection was done with metacognition questionnaire-30 (mcq-30) b...

BACKGROUND Alzheimer's disease (AD) causes considerable distress in caregivers who are continuously required to deal with requests from patients. Coping strategies play a fundamental role in modulating the psychologic impact of the disease, although their role is still debated. The present study aims to evaluate the burden and anxiety experienced by caregivers, the effectiveness of adopted copi...